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...Colell says he is currently working with Green on a microeconomic theory textbook...
...textbook case of crisis mismanagement. Hit by hundreds of lawsuits and a federal probe into the safety of its silicone breast implants, Dow Corning spent much of the past year hunkered down in a defensive crouch -- stalling investigators, sitting on evidence and minimizing the complaints of women who said the devices caused them pain, disfigurement and serious autoimmune disorders. By the time the Food and Drug Administration called for a ban on the implants last month, Dow Corning's health and safety problem mushroomed into a public relations disaster...
...banking system capable of siphoning capital and credit to entrepreneurs opening private businesses or to state combines suddenly shorn of their subsidies. No country has been able to figure out a rapid way to convert state businesses to private ownership. "It is absolutely wrong to come in here with textbook notions of economics," says Werner Varga, an economist with Creditanstalt, a large Austrian bank that keeps a close watch on the region...
Here, the plot thickens: Barr begins to see that the pieces just don't fit. In a very fishy sense, Diana's dream turns out to be a textbook case. Barr finds he has personal contacts with all of the pertinent witnesses at the trial. And what's more the sole beneficiary to Heather's husband's estate--the one obstacle to her inheriting it herself--has just died...
...same token, great changes have taken place in the versions of American history taught to schoolchildren. The past 10 years have brought enormous and hard-won gains in accuracy, proportion and sensitivity in the textbook treatment of American minorities, whether Asian, Native, black or ^ Hispanic. But this is not enough for some extremists, who take the view that only blacks can write the history of slavery, only Indians that of pre- European America, and so forth...